We're Going Up!

You can't come to St Louis & not see & go up the Gateway Arch.

Richard & Beth really wanted to go up but Rose suffers from vertigo & so she stayed on the ground with Cheryl & looked around the Museum of Westward Expansion (which is under the Arch). This contains some Cowboy & Indian type exhibits & as Rose collects Indian figures & ornaments she was more happy to look at the displays.

I also wanted to go up in the Arch, but had been told that the tram to get up to the top was really small & that the door to get into the 'capsule' was even smaller - not good for a big chap like me! Still, I needn't had worried since there was plenty of room. As we were one of the first trams up there was only the three of us in the capsule.

The weather was a bit overcast, but we still had a really good view of St Louis & Illinois from 'up top'. Due to the inverted triangular profile at the top of the Arch, you can actually look vertically down. There is no time limit to how long you stay up there, but once you have seen the views there is nothing else really to do.